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In the 1960s Hubbard's movement spread throughout the world despite the opposition of medical societies and legal authorities from Great Britain to Greece. Hubbard now spends most of his time cruising outside the twelve-mile limit aboard his magnificently appointed yacht. The Church of Scientology is now a franchise operation with Hubbard receiving a small percentage of the take. He has come a long way since those days when he and Parsons were drawing circles on the floor and praying to unseen demons. The latest entry is an outfit called Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. of Orlando. Florida, who have ‘had difficulties with law enforcement agencies in several states', according to the Better Business Bureau. Koscot has been pushing *Dare To Be Great’, a motivational course consisting of a series of four tapes which will tell you how to get rich. The four tapes cost only seventy-seven hundred dollars, but the investment can be quickly recouped by selling the course to others. The whole scheme is based upon a pyramid plan with each student peddling the course to new seekers of truth. Unfortunately, {he population of a state can not support an indefinite selling plan that depends upon recruiting other sellers and students, and the Better Business Bureau has labelled the whole enterprise ‘doubtful and unrealistic'. The tapes deal largely with the same philosophy and cosmology found in all the occult lore. Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. PLATO A New Jersey sign painter named Howard Menger experienced a most revealing flying saucer vision in August 1956, when he came face-to-face with a godlike being. But according to his book From Outer Space to You. Menger's story began years earlier. As a boy he had encountered a beautiful female entity in a wood and was told that he would one day serve the illustrious space people. As a young man in,' the Army he was again contacted, this time in Juarez. Mexico, by a man with long blond hair and suntanned skin, riding in a taxicab. Then in the mid- 1950s, Menger's real adventures began. Strange aerial objects haunted the area around his home near High Bridge. New Jersey, frhere were innumerable witnesses, including lawyers, physicists, and reporters.) The space people began to drop in on him for coffee and friendly chats about the state of the universe. They asked him to buy dark sunglasses with red lenses, and on several occasions they even pressed him into service as a barber, inviting him to chop off their long blond tresses so they would look even more human. He was rewarded with a flight to the moon (he brought back some strange rocks which were, he said, moon potatoes). Finally, in August 1956, he met aL Lie ee. A saucer landed in a field near Menger's home, and two men stepped out of it. Then a magnificent sight appeared in the doorway,’ Menger wrote. 'A tali, handsome man with long blond hair over his shoulders stood towering at the entrance... Then he came toward me. But he seemed to float or glide rather than walk." This being was dressed in 'a radiant white ski-type The games of the ultraterrestriat never end. CHAPTER ELEVEN the boss spaceman.